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This slide forms part of a much larger collection of images from the life and career of Hope Macpherson Black. They document her famous research trips to Macquarie Island as part of the first team of women permitted to research in the Antarctic. Other images document her earlier expeditions around Australia and her wedding in 1965, which under the Marriage Bar at the time required her to resign her position at the peak of her career. Finally a number of images capture her latter career as a science teacher.

Description:

35mm transparency in mount.

Description Of Content:

Bus parked at the base of some magnificent tall trees and there is a fern to the left of the image.

Acquisition Information:

Donation from Paul Black, 2012

Discipline:

History

Dimensions:

50 mm (Height), 50 mm (Width)

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Tagged with:

antarctic research, working life

Themes this item is part of:

Hope Black nee Macpherson, Curator of Molluscs (1919 - )

Primary Classification:

MUSEUM HISTORY

Secondary Classification:

Working Life

Tertiary Classification:

staff

Inscriptions:

Handwritten: Tara (sic) Valley, Western Strzelecki Rd, GippslandPrinted number has been crossed through making it illegible